CITR Members

To address challenges such as labor shortages, aging society, and intelligent industrial upgrading, our center promotes a new paradigm of human-robot collaboration.

中心主管

Center Directors

Director

Dist. Prof. Ching-Hung Lee

Expertise: Intelligent Control, Control of Robot Manipulator and Applications, Smart Manufacture, Nonlinear Control, Fuzzy Neural Network Systems, Evolutionary theory and calculation
Lab: Intelligent Control and Applications Laboratory

2021–2025 Named to the Stanford University/Elsevier World's Top 2% Scientists List for Career-Long Scientific Impact (Subfield: Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing)
2025 / 2024 Associate Editor of International Journal of Fuzzy Systems and IEEE Sensors Journal
2024 Industrial Outstanding Contribution Award, Taiwan Association of Systems Science and Engineering (TASSE)
2023 Outstanding Research Award, National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), and Macronix Dr. Ting-Hua Hu Chair Professor, College of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU)
2019 Fellow of the Chinese Automatic Control Society (CACS) and Industry–Academia Contribution Award, Taiwan Association of Machinery Industry (TAMI)
2016 / 2009 Outstanding Automatic Control Engineering Award and Young Automatic Control Engineering Award, Chinese Automatic Control Society (CACS)
2013 IEEE Senior Member
2008 Dr. Ta-You Wu Memorial Award, National Science Council (NSC)

Deputy Director

Prof. Gih-Keong Lau

Expertise: bio-inspired soft robotic, muscle-like actuators/sensors, micro-mechatronic systems, Bio-inspired flapping wing drone
Lab: Bio-inspired Soft Robotics Laboratory

2024 NYCU Engineering Excellent Teaching Award
Best poster award for 2021 Annual Research Outcome (Aerospace technology), National Science and Technology Committee (NSTC), Taiwan
2019 Junior Chair Professor Award from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
2019 Service Award from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Tan Chin Tuan Fellowship (outbound exchange to EPFL) in 2015

計畫總主持人

Lead PI

Prof. Atsuo Takanishi

Expertise: Humanoid Robotics, Biped Walking Robots, Bio-inspired Robotics, Medical Robotics, Rescue Robotics, Human–Robot Interaction, Mechatronics, Intelligent Robotic Systems, Musical Performance Robots, Robot Motion Control
Lab: Takanishi Laboratory (Bio-Robotics Laboratory)

Pioneer of the Waseda humanoid robot (WABOT) project
IEEE Fellow
Internationally recognized researcher in biped humanoid robotics
Developed saxophonist and flutist robots
Advanced medical training and rescue robotics systems
Scopus h-index around 48 with over 10,000 citations
2025 Okuma Memorial Academic Award
Academic Encouragement Award, Japanese Society for Temporomandibular Joint
Paper Award, Robotics Society of Japan
Research Encouragement Award, Robotics Society of Japan
Excellent Poster Award, Japanese Society of Mastication
Excellent Presentation Award, Japanese Orthodontic Society
Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers Award (Paper Category)
Finalist, Best Paper Award, IEEE ICRA 2006
NTF Award Finalist, IEEE IROS 2007
Outstanding Poster Presentation Award, 20th Japanese Society for Temporomandibular Joint

兼任研究員

Adjunct Research Fellow

Lecturer Jia-Yeu Lin

Expertise: Human Interface, Intelligent Mechanical Systems, Robotics, Humanoid Robotics, Musical Performance Robots, Robot-based Music Therapy, Rescue Robotics
Lab: Takanishi Laboratory (Bio-Robotics Laboratory)

Co-developed humanoid saxophone-playing robots with Professor Atsuo Takanishi
Conducted research on robot-based music therapy
Participated in hybrid locomotion robots for earthquake rescue missions
Published papers in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
Contributed to the WAS humanoid musical performance robot series
Conducted interdisciplinary research combining robotics, HRI, and art technology